Drive-thru windows at fast-food restaurants, banks and other businesses have long represented the convenience for which American businesses are renowned. But the ease of idling in a vehicle while waiting for your order is now associated with another development: climate change.
As a result, some communities across the U.S. are banning drive-thrus, citing the additional carbon emissions that are released. Minneapolis this summer banned construction of new drive-thrus, while officials in Long Beach, California, have imposed a six-month ban on new drive-thrus while they study the issue. Similar ordinances restricting or prohibiting fast-food windows have also been adopted in communities including Creve Coeur, Missouri; Fair Haven, New Jersey; and Orchard Park, New York.
Minneapolis cited air pollution from idling vehicles as a major factor for the ban on drive-thrus, along with litter, noise and the potential of vehicles blocking sidewalks, which can increase the risk of a pedestrian accident. The order is part of the city's long-term plan, called Minneapolis 2040, which includes a goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050.
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I hope I live to see the day when this Climate Change (see Global Warming) hysteria is debunked. But then the people behind the screen will have already thought of another way to scare the masses out of their tax dollars.
ReplyDeleteYou will never see it 3:29. Hell they still don't believe hillary lost almost 3 years ago
DeleteLiberals taking your rights away little by little.
ReplyDeleteLOL your right to sit on your fat ass in a drive through ? Really? Park and go in and get the full service and a fight that ends up on social media. I would not eat anything from any fast food drive through. They drop the food spit on it and these places are filthy and staffed by minorities that hold you in contempt. Go ahead though anyone that eats that crap deserves the lack of service and disrespect they get. Their health will dwindle before any Global Warming.
ReplyDeleteMcDonald's is bad here in town. Princess Anne is even worse. All I want is a free ice cream cone from my receipt, and they can't get that right.
ReplyDeleteClimate change another lie and deception from luciferian left. Kill more jobs
ReplyDeleteNeed to ban fast good altogether. If you go in, you still have gas expelling from the fat asses that eat there all the time. Smells like one big fart inside.
ReplyDeleteA carbon released in China will be in our atmosphere in days.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me when I was a kid in the 70's there was to be a new Ice Age well underway by the year 2000 if something wasn't done.
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